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Sight is your downfall in the world of Bird Box . Bullock, who plays the protagonist Malorie, slowly realizes that catching sight of one of the creatures  who the audience never gets to see  either makes humans commit willful suicide or turns them into zombie-like servants whose goal is to get other humans to see the creatures. Malorie, who is pregnant, waits out the first half of the movie in a house shared with other survivors, eating dwindling food rations and covering up windows.

Stepping into the void left by a local quartet's departing singer, Freddie is the spark igniting a whole new level of ambition for guitarist May (Gwilym Lee), drummer Taylor (Ben Hardy) and bass player John Deacon (Joseph Mazzello)  all of whom, unlike Freddie, have a Plan B if the music thing doesn't work out. As to the indefinable, transcendent something known as band chemistry, the movie doesn't quite penetrate the mystery. The lads call themselves misfits playing for misfits, which hardly captures what makes them unique among rock acts.

The music-biz elements of that saga strike a lighter note, as you might expect when Mike Myers is tapped to play an EMI exec, a quarter-century after Wayne's World put this movie's title song back on the charts. A nearly unrecognizable Myers is the hit-hungry money guy who once championed the group and now just doesn't get the genre-bending, six-minute "Bo Rhap," as a take-no-prisoners Freddie, bouncing about the office like a frog, calls their new song. The scene is a strained bit of burlesque-meets-manifesto, somewhat redeemed by its ultimate punchline, many scenes later.

Swooping from a rapturous overhead shot of Wembley Stadium (Haye re-created the defunct venue's stage, to scale, at an airfield) to the intimate onstage interplay of the musicians, out to the rapt crowd and back again, Newton Thomas Sigel's dynamic camerawork is a high-voltage language of communion.The rough edges of Freddie Mercury's story might be smoothed over in this telling, the indulgences and debauchery sugarcoated. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? It's a little bit of both.

Such occupational hazards conspire to form an environment that, if not inherently dangerous, can easily compound any external problems a worker is facing. "It would be difficult to make it a health-promoting job," Martin concedes. "But other 'hard' industries like the police and emergency services are starting to make real inroads. So it can be done." A number of industry leaders are now determined to ensure that happens, among them TV chef and restaurateur George Calombaris.